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Echoing Hylas - A Study in Hellenistic and Roman Metapoetics (Hardcover)
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Echoing Hylas - A Study in Hellenistic and Roman Metapoetics (Hardcover)
Series: Wisconsin Studies in Classics
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During a stopover of the Argo in Mysia, the boy Hylas sets out to
fetch water for his companion Hercules. Wandering into the woods,
he arrives at a secluded spring, inhabited by nymphs who fall in
love with him and pull him into the water. Mad with worry, Hercules
stays in Mysia to look for the boy, but he will never find him
again . . . In Echoing Hylas, Mark Heerink argues that the story of
Hylas-a famous episode of the Argonauts' voyage-was used by poets
throughout classical antiquity to reflect symbolically on the
position of their poetry in the literary tradition. Certain
elements of the story, including the characters of Hylas and
Hercules themselves, functioned as metaphors of the art of poetry.
In the Hellenistic age, for example, the poet Theocritus employed
Hylas as an emblem of his innovative bucolic verse, contrasting the
boy with Hercules, who symbolized an older, heroic-epic tradition.
The Roman poet Propertius further developed and transformed
Theocritus's metapoetical allegory by turning Heracles into an
elegiac lover in pursuit of an unattainable object of affection. In
this way, the myth of Hylas became the subject of a dialogue among
poets across time, from the Hellenistic age to the Flavian era.
Each poet, Heerink demonstrates, used elements of the myth to claim
his own place in a developing literary tradition. With this
innovative diachronic approach, Heerink opens a new dimension of
ancient metapoetics and offers many insights into the works of
Apollonius of Rhodes, Theocritus, Virgil, Ovid, Valerius Flaccus,
and Statius.
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